[issue21092] json serializer implicitly stringifies non-string keys

[Chris Rebert]

New submission from Chris Rebert:

Python 3.3.4 (default, Feb 21 2014, 18:00:34) 
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 5.0 (clang-500.2.79)] on darwin
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>>> from json import dumps
>>> dumps({True: True, False: False, None: None, 42: 42})
'{"false": false, "true": true, "42": 42, "null": null}'
>>>


This implicit stringification of non-string dictionary keys does not currently appear to be documented.

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 215105
nosy: cvrebert, docs at python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: json serializer implicitly stringifies non-string keys
versions: Python 3.5

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